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More than 130 fires continue to burn across New South Wales and Victoria Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

Last week, an ecologist at the University of Sydney estimated that nearly half a billion animals had been wiped out since Australia's devastating wildfires started spreading in September. Now, he says ...

Brady Barr shares his "Dangerous Encounters." June 8, 2009— -- As a scientist and an adventurer in the wild, Brady Barr often comes face-to-face with some of nature's most dangerous creatures.

Learn more about the difference between bioluminescence and photoluminescence, and about the particular chemical compounds that give bandicoots (and other Australian mammals) their colorful glow.

The first detailed study of the global trading of Australian reptiles and amphibians has recorded a total of 170 species for sale, including dozens not recorded overseas before. Researchers say the ...

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

Euan Ritchie receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action. Euan is a Councillor within the Biodiversity Council, a member of the ...

Gay Hawkins received funding from the Australian Research Council. Ben Dibley received funding from the Australian Research Council. Most of us will never see a platypus or a lyrebird in the wild, but ...